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	Jim Bowie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Bowie (1796 - March 6, 1836), aka Jim Bowie, was a 19th century pioneer and soldier who took a prominent part in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo.
		Bowie is also known for the style of knife he carried, which came to be known as the "Bowie knife".
		Bowie's first famous display of courage was participating in a brawl near Natchez, Mississippi where several people died and he himself was wounded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Bowie (766 words)

	Bowie knife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Bowie's older brother John claimed that the knife at the Sandbar Fight was not Cleft's knife, but a knife specifically made for Bowie by a flsmith named Snowden.
		The most famous version of the Bowie knife was designed by Jim Bowie and presented to Arkansas flsmith James Black in the form of a carved wooden model in December of 1830.
		Bowie returned, with his knife, to Texas and was involved in a knife fight with three men who had been hired to kill him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowie_knife (1394 words)

	Jim Bowie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The third one of the original "Bowie brothers" settled in South Carolina, he was the father of Rezin, and grand-father of Rezin Pleasants Bowie, and of James Bowie.
		Rezin Pleasants Bowie was born in Sumner County, Tennessee at the end of Baker Lane, about a mile west of Gallatin, TN, afterwards his father sold the property on 1/27/1794 and moved the family to KY, where Jim was born.
		Bowie received wounds from three balls, and four stabs, and was, as he expressed himself after his wounds were dressed "damned badly wounded," but how he lived is mystery to me.
	www.beadedlegends.com /JimBowie.htm (4022 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BOWIE, JAMES
		Bowie was ill with yellow fever in Natchez and unaware of the deaths.
		Bowie had hired Travis as early as 1833 in San Felipe to prepare land papers, and in June 1834 Travis represented Bowie and Isaac Donoho in a case filed by Francis W. Johnson.
		Bowie, Fannin, and the detachment remained in the immediate area south of Bexar while Austin moved his army and established headquarters on the Alamo Canal.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/fbo45.html (3196 words)

	The Lost Bowie Mine of James Bowie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Despite the fact that James Bowie is widely regarded as a Texas hero for his role in the Alamo, the truth is that he was a scoundrel and criminal and had he not died defending the Alamo he would have likely been hanged or shot by either law enforcement or one of his many enemies.
		Bowie went to live with the Indians, hunted with them, fought their enemies and eventually became a trusted member of the tribe and warrior.
		Bowie was known to be an opportunist and fortune hunter.
	www.calfcreek.net /bowie.html (5508 words)

	Jim Bowie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bowie is also known for the style of knife he carried, EHandler: no quick summary.
		A bowie knife is commonly used in modern times to refer to any large sheath knife....
		Bowie's first famous display of courage was participating in a brawl near Natchez, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ji/jim_bowie.htm (1178 words)

	Bowie, By Steve Goodson
		Jim became involved in a political squabble in which he was opposed by the Sheriff or Rapides Parish, Norris Wright.
		Bowie was said to be "consistently courteous, sympathetic, kind and affectionate, and they returned his affection in full measure." Bowie entered a partnership with his father-in-law to develop textile mills in Saltillo, Mexico.
		Jim awed the tribe by his prowess as a hunter and fighter, leading a war party on a raid to a Comanche encampment near present day Brownwood.
	www.texfiles.com /bowie (2492 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jim Bowie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947) is an English rock singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, mixer, and actor.
		Jim Bowie's older brother John claimed that the knife at the Sandbar Fight was not Cleft's knife, but a knife specifically made for Bowie by a flsmith named Snowden.
		The most famous version of the Bowie knife was designed by Jim Bowie and presented to Arkansas flsmith James Black in the form of a carved wooden model in December of 1830.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jim-Bowie (2066 words)

	Knife Gallery - Arkansas artists, paintings, pottery, furniture, and firearms from the past 200 years
		The story of Jim Bowie, as well as the history and art of bladesmithing are told in the museum's Knife Gallery.
		Jim Bowie became known for his ability to fight with knives after the "Sandbar Duel" in Mississippi in 1827.
		By the time Jim Bowie died at the Alamo in 1836, the term Bowie knife was established as the name for the knives popular at the time.
	www.arkansashistory.com /knife_gallery (622 words)

	James Bowie (1795-1836) - famous Bowie knife, Jim Bowie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Popularized by Jim Bowie and the legendary sandbar fight, the actual shape and size of the Bowie is a matter of dispute.
		Bowie led the governor's ranging parties against the Comanches, became a Mexican citizen and a Catholic, and married her on April 23, 1831.
		Bowie was a leading participant at the Battle of Concepcion and in the Grass Fight near San Antonio.
	www.briantaylor.com /jimbowie.htm (1012 words)

	History of Jim Bowie-Early Day Texian, Died Defending the Alamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		James (Jim) Bowie was one of the gallant men that defended the Alamo in 1836 buying General Sam Houstor precious time to build and train an army to fight Santa Anna's army.
		Jim Bowie's brother, Rezin Bowie, was elected to the Louisiana state legislature.
		Bowie entered Texas which was now under Mexican control, in January of 1830, stopping at Nacogdoches, where Bowie presented a letter of introduction to empresario Stephen F. Austin from Thomas F. McKinney, one of the Old Three Hundred colonists.
	www.forttumbleweed.com /jimbowie.html (2685 words)

	James Bowie (1795-1836) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Known for his famous "Bowie knife" and a sometimes reckless adventurer, Jim Bowie is now immortalized as one of the true folk heroes in early Texas.
		Rezin Bowie, his brother, wrote he had the first Bowie Knife made at Avoyelles, Louisiana, for his brother James to defend himself, and that James used the Bowie knife in the sandbar duel.
		In the Texas Revolution, Bowie was a leading participant at the Battle of Concepcion and in the Grass Fight near San Antonio.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/8781/JimBowie.html (293 words)

	The Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F. & A.M.
		Henry Clay declared Bowie "the greatest fighter in the Southwest." Clay had witnessed a confrontation between Bowie and an obnoxious pipe smoker on a stagecoach in 1832.
		When a lady's request that the pipe be extinguished was ignored, the gallant and daring Bowie produced his famous knife and caused the fellow to reconsider.
		Bowie came to Texas in 1830 and settled in San Antonio, where he married the beautiful Ursula Veramendi, daughter of the Vice-Governor of Coahuila and Texas.
	www.grandlodgeoftexas.org /bowie.php (348 words)

	Jim Bowie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bowie is also known for the style knife he carried which came to be as the " Bowie knife ".
		Musician David Bowie named himself after Jim Bowie's knife.
		In his introduction to "Jim Bowie: Frontier Legend, Alamo Hero," author J. Edmondson characterizes his legendary subject as having become a knight errant whose famous Bowie knife became an American version of King Arthur's Excalibur.
	www.freeglossary.com /Jim_Bowie (381 words)

	Jim Bowie Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jim Bowie was born on Wednesday, February 17, 1965, in Tokyo, Japan.
		Bowie was 29 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 3, 1994, with the Oakland Athletics.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Jim Bowie baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=bowieji01 (307 words)

	Luta Jim Bowie
		Jim Bowie, também já ferido, está tentando se levantar e já leva a mão direita à grande faca...
		Bowie e Cunny são rapidamente medicados, mas em minutos o general falece em consequencia de forte hemorragia, pois o disparo no abdomen atingira a artéria femural.
		Muito ferido e extremamente debilitado, Jim Bowie é levado de barco para a cidade, onde somente lá conseguem retirar-lhe cirurgicamente a longa lâmina e os projéteis.
	www.knifeco.ppg.br /lutajb.htm (1177 words)

	Rare Jim Bowie Portrait Goes Home to Texas ; Maine Antique Digest, August 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Just as Jim Bowie was known for daring adventures with his famous knife and for his climactic stand at the Alamo in 1836, his posthumous final fight involved his ancestors in a tug of war for ownership of his likeness.
		With Bowie's death at the Alamo at about age 41, the portrait went to his older brother, Rezin (pronounced Reason), who was the actual designer of the bowie knife.
		To the joy of Texans, Jim Bowie, who was born in Kentucky and spent much of his life in Louisiana, returns to the Lone Star State where he is hailed a hero in the state's struggle for independence from Mexico.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/bow10801.htm (641 words)

	Col. Jim Bowie and Family
		Rezin Pleasant Bowie died in 1821 in Opelousas.
		Some descendants claim James Bowie, fmc., born at Catahoula, moved to Avoyelles, LA ca 1860, is a mulatto descendant of Jim Bowie and forefather of this branch of Bowie family which still resides in Central Louisiana.Actually, James Bowie FMC was a different person.
		James Bowie died in the defense of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas on March 6, 1836.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/8781 (402 words)

	Bowie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bowie is a Scots surname, derived from the Scottish Gaelic word buie (pronounced approximately boe-ay), meaning yellow-haired.
		Jim Bowie, Scottish-Texan pioneer and soldier (known to have used the original Scottish pronunciation)
		This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowie (145 words)

	Jim Bowie Frontiersman Bowie Knife Alamo
		Jim Bowie was an aggressive frontiersman that lived most of his life in Louisiana.
		Jim Bowie was famous for his long knife that was named after him.
		Jim Bowie moved to Texas in 1828 and married the governor of the province of Texas' daughter.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_names/bowie_jim/bowie_jim.html (289 words)

	Natural History: Jim Bowie's Letter & Bill Buckner's Legs - analysis of events at the Alamo siege, 1836 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bowie, who was already dying, lay on a bed....
		With his other hand he was brandishing his famous Bowie knife at a bunch of Mexican soldiers....
		It was the way Bowie's big neck and his jaws jutted out toward the Mexicans and the way his eyes blazed defiant to the end, that made it a great painting.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_109/ai_62324474 (287 words)

	SearchEngine.net - Jim Bowie Knife
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		There's also Jim Bowie, peerless knife-fighter from Louisiana, said to be tough enough to trap bears and ride alligators.
	www.searchengine.net /Jim_Bowie_Knife.htm (224 words)

	Bowie, James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Texas from 1828, Bowie became a leader of American settlers who opposed the Mexican government and joined in the Nacogdoches disturbances of 1832.
		When the Texas revolution began in 1835, he was appointed colonel; he died at the Alamo.
		The legend attributing the bowie knife to his invention is disputed.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/Bowie-Ja.html (140 words)

	Who Is The Jim Bowie Band? Band member bios and history.
		One of the "founders" of the band, (as well as it's namesake), Jim Bowie has been active in the Washington music scene for over 35 years.
		Playing in such bands as The Confusions, The Banned, and Essence, Jim had the opportunity to open for Smokey Robinson at the University of Maryland back in 1967, and was a regular on the Washington DC embassy party circuit.
		Steve has been playing for 25 years, and when not performing with the Jim Bowie Band he plays as a "one man band" in various smaller nightclubs, bars, and American Legion halls.
	www.jimbowieband.com /who_are_we.htm (697 words)

	Jim Bowie Festival
		Jim Bowie...the name still conjures visions of that great big knife, tales of Jim Bowie's adventures and his climactic death as a hero at the Alamo.
		Bowie was merely a bystander in a duel between political rivals, but the melee that ensued wounded him, killed others and gave birth to the legend of the Bowie Knife.
		Sorry, we reserve the whole story for the story-tellers and re-enactors you'll see at the annual Jim Bowie Festival in September.
	www.vidaliala.com /bowie.htm (212 words)

	Bowie Knife by Jim Bowie Sandbar Fight Blacksmith Jesse Clift Black Smith Snowden
		Jim Bowie and the Bowie knife have almost become synonymous.
		In 1830 in Texas, Jim Bowie armed with the famous Bowie knife made by James Black, was attacked by three men hired to kill him.
		As the Alamo was overrun by the Mexican army, Jim Bowie laid on a cot in the Low Barracks with his Bowie knife and pistol at hand.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/define_the_west/bowie_knife/bowie_knife.html (520 words)

	case bowie knife, collectible bowie knives, jim bowie, jim bowie knife
		New for 2005 the "Alamo Bowie" by Case knives is an impressive piece.
		The Case Kodiak Hunter Bowie is an impressive knife.
		This beautiful bowie knife is the perfect way to commemorate special achievements and occasions.
	www.jaysknives.com /case_5.htm (377 words)

	Jim Bowie Band - Live variety band for weddings / private parties - Maryland, DC, Virginia
		Jim Bowie Band - Live variety band for weddings / private parties - Maryland, DC, Virginia
		For two decades the Jim Bowie Band has been entertaining people of all ages at
		The performance is approximately 15 minutes long, and features a wide variety of the material we perform.
	www.jimbowieband.com (349 words)

	Classic TV Western Shows - Adventures of Jim Bowie, Scott Forbes
		Set in the Louisiana Territory of the 1830s, Bowie was a rich planter who ran across many interesting characters, all set against the backdrop of New Orleans.
		This is the period in Bowie's life before he left for Texas and was killed at the Alamo.
		Minerva Urecal died in 1996 of a heart attack and Scott Forbes died in 1997.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /tv/jim-bowie.htm (170 words)

	Bowie Jerky by Jim Bowie Meats - the Best in Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bowie Jerky by Jim Bowie Meats - the Best in Texas
		Jim Bowie Beef Jerky, Smoked Cheeses and Summer Sausage History
		We also have our own retail sales at our plant in Bowie, Texas, at the intersection of Highway 1125 and US 287.
	www.bowiejerky.com (480 words)

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